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way before, and could not understand why a man should dress so much
like a woman. I believe I remember seeing that block of marble lying
there in the woods, on the mountain top, with nothing around it to even
indicate that it was the beginning of anything. I believe there was
a railway track but no station, or any other buildings of any description.
It was then hoped that stone would be the beginning of a great University
but it was not to be, it was destroyed during the Civil War by the Union
Soldiers. I will add that I have only passed through Sewanne once since,
and have never entered any of the University buildings, although I have
lived only 12 to 15 miles away practically all of my life.

Yet I was the first person to enter the Freshman Class of
the University! Strange! How can that be? It was this way -- After
the end of the war, I believe it was Bishop Quintard, who again got up
a fund to start building operations for the University, and he was
anxious also to begin the educational scheme. So he acquired the use
of a school building at Winchester, and then started the University
Course as well as a Primary Department. That was in 1866, and the
school was in charge of Dr. Knight as Principal, and Dr. Hay as teacher
of Latin and Greek. There was another teacher or two whom I do not
remember. There was another boy who took part of the University Freshman
Course. He was from Memphis and the son of an Architect. I remember
that no one ever recited with me in Latin and Greek. I was reading
Livy and Zenophon's Memorabilia. I had also Trigonomitry, Mental
Philosophy and Classical Literature. I got receipts printed under
the style of the "University of the South", when I paid tuition.

I remember Dr. Knight as a very kind and worthy man, liked
by all the students. But I admired Bishop Quintard most. He often